Word: china
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under Secretary of State flying to Rome; the correspondent in Turkey writing feverishly of "a situation baffling to the keenest-minded diplomats"; the Canadians, at first indifferent to the war, electrified at its new menace (see p. 21); Japanese, signing an armistice with Russia, launching a new. offensive in China (see p. 24)-all these no less than Germans felt its power. It reached into libraries, discredited books; reached into general staffs, discredited strategists; reached into Chancelleries, discredited experts. But more than anything else it knocked sky-high the picture of World War II following the pattern of World...
Dropping his vacation on the Riviera, dusky, fortyish Prince Sisowath Moni-vong of Cambodia, small State of south Indo-China, enlisted in the French Army for the duration. Two U. S. aviators disputed priority in enlisting with French forces: Clifford H. de Roode, former pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille, now attached to the First Regiment of Foreign Infantry; and Steele Powers, a 27-year-old Atlanta, Ga. boy, who was accepted immediately, sent to the front, saw action within two weeks...
...plain effect on Russian intellectual life. Ranked as one of the decisive battles of the world, it changed Comintern policy, stopped plans to employ the Red Army to work with the European proletariat, forced Lenin to give up immediate hopes of world revolution, directed Comintern agitation to China and the Far East. Russians decided that they had underestimated Polish national aspirations, and nationalist ambitions everywhere; when Trotsky fell, the defeat was blamed on him, when Tukachevsky was purged, he was called responsible; latest official history of the Communist Party, the Mein Kampf of Russia, holds both guilty of collaborating with...
...last week came reports which were shockingly new, inescapably true. For seven days on end the Japanese were consistent. First, they rearranged their continental high command. Supreme command of forces in China was given to one of the Army's best strategists, Toshizo Nishio. Recently resigned War Minister Seishiro Itagaki was made Lieut. General Nishio's Chief of Staff. Command of the Kwantung Army, the able if imaginative force which since May 11 had been making the barren plains of Manchukuo a bramble of practically uncountable wrecked Russian planes, was given to one of the Army...
Therefore, the Premier was convinced, "our Workers' and Peasants' Red Army will display its combative might," and Russia was still neutral. Notes saying the same were handed the diplomatic representatives of the U. S., Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Finland, Bulgaria, Latvia, Denmark, Estonia, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Rumania, Lithuania, Norway, Hungary, the Mongolian People's Republic, and the Tuva People's Republic...